Tech Meme

Nikkei Asia: Sources: China’s Luxshare took over the Shanghai AR development team for Apple’s headset from Taiwan’s Pegatron; Foxconn to make a second-gen mass market device  —  Reliance on a Chinese supplier for first-gen gadget a first for iPhone maker  —  TAIPEI — Apple has chosen China’s Luxshare … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Internal FAQ: Google asks cloud employees and partners in its five largest US locations to share desks starting in Q2 and work from office on alternate days  —  – The company’s cloud unit has told employees that it will transition to a desk-sharing workspace in its five largest locations. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Indian Web3 gaming startup Kratos Studios, which lets developers design quests for gamers and more, raised a $20M seed led by Accel at a $150M valuation  —  – Kratos Studios raised $20 million in seed funding at a valuation of $150 million.  — The Indian web3 gaming startup also acquired IndiGG, a sub-DAO of Yield Guild Games DAO. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: Social media’s new era of a “pay-to-play” model turns features such as security, visibility, and technical support that users expect for free into premium items  —  You used to pay for social media with your eyeballs.  Now Meta and Twitter want your money, too. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jude Karabus / The Register: US-based DNA Diagnostics Center settled a pair of AG lawsuits after hackers stole data on 2.1M people in 2021 from a “legacy” database the company forgot it had  —  Settles lawsuit with two states after wider leak that affected millions  —  A DNA diagnostics company will pay $400,000 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikkei Asia: Sources: Chinese Luxshare took over AR development team for Apple’s headset in Shanghai from Taiwan’s Pegatron; Foxconn to make second gen, mass market version  —  Reliance on a Chinese supplier for first-gen gadget a first for iPhone maker  —  TAIPEI — Apple has for the first time tapped … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paresh Dave / Wired: Everyday Robots will no longer be a separate project within Alphabet and some of its tech and staff will be consolidated into Google Research robotics efforts  —  The company recently laid off thousands of human employees—it is also shutting down a unit working on robots that learned to open doors and clean tables. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Blake Brittain / Reuters: Letter: the US Copyright Office says a graphic novel’s images that were generated using the AI tool Midjourney should not have been granted copyright protection  —  Images in a graphic novel that were created using the artificial-intelligence system Midjourney should not have been granted copyright protection … Lees verder op Tech Meme

James Vincent / The Verge: Samsung expands Bixby Text Call, which answers calls via text-to-speech, to English and unveils Custom Voice Creator, which clones the user’s voice, in Korean  —  AI voice clones are already being deployed in podcasts and video games, but how long until they can be harnessed directly by the general public? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mickey Djuric / The Canadian Press News: Google tests blocking news content in Search for fewer than 4% of Canadian users for about five weeks, a potential response to Canada’s proposed Online News Act  —  Google blocking news for some Canadians in test  —  OTTAWA – Google is blocking some Canadian users from viewing news content … Lees verder op Tech Meme